Infant&#39;s band.



J. B. THORPE.

INFANT'S BAND. APPLICATION FILED 0OT.22,1908.

Patented Aug. 11, 191% U Inventor:

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JOSEPH B. .THORPE, or HIGHLAND'J'ILLE, ares'secnusems, AS31080 m BROWNDURRELL 00., OF BOSTON. IYKASSACl-IUSETTS, A conronn'non-ormessncnqsn'r'rs.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11-, 1914.

7 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josorn B. Tnonrn, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Highlandville, in thecounty of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts. have invented anImprovement in Infants Bands. of which the following description. inconnection with the accompanying drawings. is a spe ifieation, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to underclothine! and pertains more particularlvto an infants band," so-oalled, having improved provision for attachmentof a diaper or the like.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to aspecific illustrative embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing. inwhich,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of an infants band embodying; theinvention; Fig. 2a a side elevation thereof: Fig. 3 is an enlarged frontelevation of a flap for attachment of the diaper or the like; and Fig. 4is a detail section. on the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing, the garment comprises preferably acylindrically knitted body portion 5. having its upper and lowerextremities secured against raveling in any practirable manner, as byhaving an overstitohed binding 6-6. may be. equipped with any suitablemeans for supporting it in position, as the shoulder straps 77, which,as illustrated, pass over the shoulders of the wearer. Each of thestraps 77 is preferably secured, front and rca r. to the upper. boundedge 6 of the body portion The body portion 5 hasprovision for theattachment of a diaper or other nether garment; and the same may beconveniently provided on depending flaps S-8. Preferably there are. twoof these flaps, positioned near the middle of the {rarment at front andrear. Each of the spe- ('ifio illustrative flaps 88 comprises twothicknesses of material (see Fig. 4), placed face to fare-rand bound attheir upper edges to an edge of the body member 5. The atl1'.l(lll'll(.nt of the flap 8 to the body member 5 mav be effected inany przu-tiral manner: and i! is preferably surh that the still-bin! orth like by which the two are rouuoelod. servos also to bind therespective edges thereof against raveling, as illustrated at S) in Fig.4'. Preferably, also, the edges of the The body portion 5 two fla piecesare bound together against raw-cling as at 10 in Fig. l

The general tvpc of infants band hereinbefore described, except fordetails of construction, has been used prior to my invention: and theflaps, or other garment-supporting, portions thereof, have heen'used toreceive a safety pin or the like, whereby the diaper or other garment isattached thereto.

The frequent removal and replacement of nether garments, involvedrepeated insertion and withdrawal of the safety pins-or other attachingmeans; and the pins were rarely if ever inserted twice. in the sameplane, thistending of course to very dostrnetive wear upon thegarment-sup mrtiug portion of the bend; and in nm'isoquem'e said portionwould. in use, deteriorate much more rapidly than the other parts ofthehand. which receive comparatively little wear. To avoid thisdiffieulty. the present invention contemplates the provision of specialmeans for preserving an infants band or the like from such destructivewear, so that the gar meat-supporting portion. and therefore the band asa whole; may have a tune prolonged period of utility. To illustrate thisfeature of the invention, 1 have shown two pin-receiving eyelets 1!, I].As shown in Fig. 4, each of these eyelets :iay consist of an apertureextending thmu gh both of the Mn members and suitably reinforced at itsedges so as to supply strong bearing to support the pull of tlfe pin.llm-h eyelet it may be bilttonhole-stitched: and the stitches preferablyengage both of the [lap anemia-rs and bind them firmly and strmgiy togtthez. The eyelets t l. 11, or their mguivaleuts. may be duplicated no.the front and rear flaps S-R. or on such other part of the body portion5 as may constitute the garment-sup. porting part ,thereof. The safetypin or other anuncut-supporting means may be passed through the eyeletsH, H; and thereby the strains upon said pin will be transmitted throughthe hut'touhole-stitohiug or the like to a wide area of the surroundingmaterial. 7

When a two-part flap, or other garmentholding portion, used, with theeyelet reinfor ement binding the two parts together, the distribution ofthc strains of the pin is even wider, since the several wales of onepart are bound tofirther with the correspoluliug wales of a other part,and the two groups combined to give very desirable strength for thesupport of the pin.

The binding together of neighboringu'ales, by means of thebuttonhole-stitching nrun equivalent reinforcement, causes the pin toexert an oblique strain upon some of the wales, for instance, thoseadjacent the horizontal extremities of the reinforcement. This obliquestrain is transmitted as a trans verse pull upon still otherintermeshing wales; and thus the strain from two or more eyelets isdistributed throughout substan tially the entire flap or othergarment-supporting portion of the band. Since substantially the entireflap contributes thus to the support of the pin, it follows that thepulls thereon are transmitted to the body portion 5 throughoutsubstantially the width of the attached edges of the flap and bodyportion, whereby the latter is relieved from such localized distortionas resulted from straining only one or two adjacent wales in the absenceof an eyelet or the like. Also, it follows that the strains aredistributed and taken up by the body portion, not only vertically butalso obliquely, so that they are sustained by the resulting lateralcontraction of the band on the body of the wearer, as well as by theshoulder straps or their substitute.

It is to be understood that the invention is not essentially limited tothe particular details of construction hereinbefore described. It is notindispensable that all the features of the invention be used conjointly,since they may be used to advantage separately.

Claim:

An infants band comprising, in combine tion, a cylindrical elastic bodyportion (5) of circularly-lcnit fabric having its edges bound; andknitted separate flaps (8, 8) having bound upper edges with extensiveattachment to the bound lower edges of the body portion, each fla com)rising at plurality of thicknesses of linitte material hav: ing a pairof eyelets (11) bindin together a large number of wales of each apthickness and binding together also the plurality of flap thicknesseswherebystrains upon the eyelets are transmitted divergingly to a largenumber of wales of the knitted flap thicknesses and thence to theextensivev bound attachment between the flap thick nesses and thecylindrical body portion.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH B. THORPE. Witnesses:

I. R. POWER, C. P. MARsHALL.

